Long-Term Athlete Development

Dr. James Mandigo

Physical Literacy Expert

Dr. John Cairney

Physical Literacy Expert

Dr. Dean Kriellaars

Physical Literacy Expert

Christian Hrab

Long-Term Athlete Development Leader

Carolyn Trono

Long-Term Athlete Development Expert

Douglas Duncan

Long-Term Athlete Development Leader

Eugene Todd

Physical Literacy Community Mentor

Dr. Vicki Harber

Long-Term Athlete Development Expert

Istvan Balyi

Long-Term Athlete Development Architect

Istvan is an architect of the Long-Term Athlete Development framework and is a Planning and Periodization expert on which he’s published over 75 articles and chapters. His series on Long-Term Athlete Development and periodization have both been published in Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Within Canada, Istvan has worked with 17 different National Teams as a high performance advisor and planning and periodization consultant. Istvan is a national and national Long-Term Athlete Development advisor. Internationally, he has lead program development in the United States, South Africa, England, Ireland, Sweden and the Bahrain.

Richard Way

Long-Term Athlete Development and Sport for Life Architect

Richard is the CEO of the Sport for Life Society and an architect of the Long-Term Athlete Development Framework. Richard has facilitated the use of Long-Term Athlete Development for over 30 sports in more than 50 countries, and co-authored the book, Long-Term Athlete Development, with Istvan Balyi and Colin Higgs. Richard serves on the faculty of the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Delaware. A thought leader on physical literacy, Richard is a founding member of the International Physical Literacy Association. Additionally, he was the Director of Sport for Vancouver’s successful 2010 Winter Olympic Games Bid Corporation, a former commission member of the International Luge Federation, and former executive of the Canadian Luge Association. Richard represented Canada in nine Luge World Championships and was an All-Canadian West soccer star for the University of Calgary.

Expertise

Long-Term Athlete Development

Physical Literacy 101 and 301

Sport Specialization

Sport System Building

Sport for Life

Past Presentations

Health Matters

Clinton Foundation

International Coach Enrichment Certification Program

USOC

Sport for Life Canadian Summit (12x)

NOCs (15x)

Alex Wilson

Physical Literacy Leader

Alex is the Manager of Education and Evaluation for the Sport for Life Society. Alex monitors the progress of projects and builds educational connections for the Sport for Life movement. She earned a Bachelor of Physical and Health Education and Bachelor of Science from Queen’s University and a Master’s Degree in Exercise and Health Psychology from the University of British Columbia. Alex has been involved with a variety of projects supporting and encouraging physical literacy and a healthy lifestyle including Action Schools! BC, BC Wheelchair Sports Association and research projects in both education and health settings. Alex enjoys being an active part of her community and volunteers regularly with the Take a Hike Foundation and Alpine Club of Canada. She is an outdoor enthusiast who can frequently be found biking, hiking, paddling, and skiing to maximize her time in nature.

Expertise

Physical Literacy

Physical Activity in Children and Youth

André Lachance

Long-Term Athlete Development

André Lachance has been with Baseball Canada since 2001 serving as Business and Sport Development Director and Head Coach of the Women's National Team. Part of his responsibilities are around Coach Education and Long-Term Athlete Development. André is also a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. Having served as a board member with the Coaching Association of Canada for several years, André has also led several CS4L Summits on Competition Review and has helped several organizations on Long-Term Athlete Development implementation, competition reviews and other related projects. André also works internationally on Long-Term Athlete Development.

Expertise

Long-Term Athlete Development

Competition Review

Athlete Development Matrix

Branding

Coach Education

Strategic Plan

Past Presentations

Hockey Sense World Cup of Hockey Town Hall

Meaningful competition Webinar

European Baseball Coaches Association Seminar

World Baseball Softball Confederation Women's Baseball Clinic

Baseball Québec Coaches Convention

Dr. James Mandigo

Physical Literacy Expert

James Mandigo is currently the Vice Provost at Brock University. His expertise lies in developmental issues pertaining to sport and physical education. His current research pertains to the use of sport and physical education to develop life skills and the development of physical literacy amongst children and youth. James has also led a number of international projects in the Caribbean, El Salvador and Guatemala focused upon the development of healthy schools, physical literacy, and violence prevention. He is currently working with the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Olympic Values in Education Program (OVEP) to help integrate Olympic Values through sport and physical activity.

Dr. John Cairney

Physical Literacy Expert

From 2002 to 2008, Dr. Cairney held a Canada Research Chair in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He was the inaugural holder of the McMaster Family Medicine Research Chair in Child Health at McMaster and the founding Director of the Infant and Child Health (INCH) lab at McMaster University (www.inchlab.ca). Dr. Cairney was President (elect) of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatry from 2009 to 2015. He is currently the President (elect) for the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine (NASPEM). Active in publishing (200 peer-reviewed publications; 4 books), Dr. Cairney sits on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health and BMC Pediatrics. Over the past 5 years, he is held in excess of $5 million dollars in research funding. He is Editor-in-Chief of Current Developmental Disorders Reports (Springer Publishing). Dr. Cairney has also done extensive consulting work for the Ministries of Child and Youth Services, Health and Education in the province of Ontario in the area of child health and development.

Dr. Dean Kriellaars

Physical Literacy Expert

Dr. Kriellaars is a faculty member of the College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Physical Therapy. He is a member of the Spinal Cord Research Centre and a scientist of the Children’s Health Research Institute. His Human Performance Laboratory has numerous students and staff directed to undertaking research on physical literacy, exercise, physical literacy. Dr. Kriellaars has been awarded two major university teaching awards, national and international awards for scientific research and innovation. Dr. Kriellaars has received two University of Manitoba Presidential Outreach awards for meritorious community work, and recently was awarded the Campbell Award for longstanding community service. He was named as the co-chair of the Premiers Council on Healthy Living for the province of Manitoba. He works with Canadian Sport for Life, PHE Canada, the Sport Medicine and Science Council of Manitoba, as well as the RCMP on community wellness initiatives. He also undertakes extensive research in performance enhancement and injury prevention in the high performance circus setting at the National Circus School and Cirque du Soleil.

Christian Hrab

Long-Term Athlete Development Leader

Christian is a member of the Sport for Life Leadership Team and was responsible for introducing a new coaching education program to Canada Snowboard, which incorporated the Long-Term Athlete Development model. From 1994 to 2010, he was an athlete, coach, and then director of the Canadian National Snowboard team. As a coach, he has lead numerous athletes, both able bodied and para, to World Cup, World Championship, and Olympic gold medal performances. As a performance advisor, Christian has worked with numerous summer sports at Taekwondo Canada and at the National Sport Institute. He currently leads the Canadians Association for Disabled Skiers and Snowboarders: CADS.

Expertise

Athlete development: Long and short term

Past Presentations

Sport Leadership

Sport for Life summits

Own the Podium

Snowboard Canada

Taekwondo Canada

Regional sport centres

Carolyn Trono

Long-Term Athlete Development Expert

Carolyn is the Director of Long-Term Athlete Development for the Sport for Life Society. She has worked with many sport organizations at the community, provincial and national level in the areas of strategic planning, LTAD implementation and coach education. She has worked with many National Sport Organizations development of their Long-Term Athlete Development frameworks and Competition Review and Restructuring Plans. Carolyn filled the role of Director of Coach Education for Rowing Canada for 15 years. As a Director for Sport for Life, she works extensively with national and multi-sport organizations as they move toward integration of Long-Term Athlete Development into their culture and programs. Carolyn is working extensively with a team of experts looking at meaningful competition. Outside of the sport world, she delivers workshops on the 3Ms - Performance,Change and Time Management.
In her volunteer time, Carolyn has started a newcomer sport & multi-sport academy, working extensively with various immigration organizations. She is heavily involved with 2017 Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg holding the volunteer position as the Sport Function Lead.

Expertise

Workshops and Speaking Topics

Strategic Planning

3M's

Long-Term Athlete Development 101

Competition Review and Restructuring

Meaningful Competition

Douglas Duncan

Long-Term Athlete Development Leader

Douglas is the Manager of Activation for the Sport for Life Society. He manages the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Legacy Project in partnership with the Canadian Soccer Association project. The project aims to reduce the rate of soccer injuries in Canada by supporting clubs to implement the FIFA 11+ Injury Prevention Warm-up and Sport for Life's Physical Literacy Movement Preparation program into regular club programming. In addition Douglas leads Sport for Life engagement in Quebec, supports a number of Sport for Life's Long Term Athlete Development Projects and is a consultant as part of Sport for Life's work with New York Road Runners.

Douglas has been a leader within the Canadian Sport for Life Movement since its inception. A former long track speed skater and national training centre coach, Douglas has had the opportunity to work directly with many of the coaches and athletes of Canada’s speed skating team during the Vancouver and Sochi Olympics.

He then moved into a series of sport development roles, both provincially and nationally, working to align athlete development, coaching education and competition with Long-Term Athlete Development. Before joining the Sport for Life team, Douglas served as Athletics Canada’s Director of Sport Development where he was responsible for a number of programs and initiatives including the Run-Jump-Throw-Wheel Program, coach education, and all club, school and road running programs. Douglas is a passionate believer in the ability of sport to change lives and the importance of collaboration.

Expertise

Long Term Athlete Development

Competition Review

National/Provincial Sport Organisation Implementation

Sport Development

Eugene Todd

Physical Literacy Community Mentor

Eugene Todd is a community mentor and a member of the Engagement Team with the Sport for Life Society. Eugene has been involved in the recreation and sport movement for over 35 years. His professional career included an extended stint working in the area of athlete development with an emphasis on the organization and delivery of multisport games competitions. In addition, he spent more than 20 years as a senior recreation practitioner within the municipal sector. His current affiliation with Sport for Life is as a consultant working with community organizations and municipal staff as they travel along their physical literacy journey. He is the President of the Northumberland Sports Council and is on the Board of the Community Sport Councils Ontario. He is also currently the Co-Chair for the 2017 Ontario Plus 55 Winter Games.

Expertise

PL topics (101, Intro, 301 general etc),

Municipal Recreation

Trail Development

Past Presentations

Physical Literacy National Summit and regional PL summits including Hamilton and Peterborough

Dr. Vicki Harber

Long-Term Athlete Development Expert

Vicki is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta from the Faculty of Physical Education & Recreation. She is a member of the Sport for Life Management Group and Leadership Group, and is helping to shape athlete development programs for young females across Canada. She holds a Sport Nutrition diploma from the IOC and sits on the board for the Edmonton Sport Council. In 2011 and 2012, Vicki was honoured by CAAWS as one of the Most Influential Women in Sport and Physical Activity. She was a member of the 1980 and 1984 Canadian Olympic Rowing team.